50 STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEMI1RACID.E 



segment of the female long, almost truncated behind, the hind edge scarcely 

 oblique either side of the very narrow and deep median notch which reaches 

 almost to the middle of the segment. Color of the specimens pale greenish 

 with obscure mottlings; the face, front of the metopidium and attenuated 

 tip tinged with rufo-fulvous; femora obviously infuscated. Length 6mm. 



Described from two female examples received from Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson: one taken at Charlotte Harbor and 

 the other at Biscayne Bay, Florida. This species would be 

 most likely to be confounded with the Cuban rotundata with 

 which it agrees in the form of the clypeus, but it has the pro 

 notum more elevated with the attenuated apex shorter; the 

 metopidium is less convex, with its sides converging from the 

 base and meeting much nearer the front. From hitea it differs 

 by its smaller size, the absence of black from the lower surface, 

 the more strongly carinated sides of the metopidium and much 

 shorter clypeus. In the form of the last ventral segment of 

 the female it is quite distinct from either. 



12. Stictocephala sanguino=apicaIis Goding. 



Dr. Goding described this species as near inermis but with 

 the posterior process of the pronotum sanguinous behind the 

 middle and marked with two transverse brown bands. These 

 markings if not due to an accident or immaturity are quite 

 unique in this genus. 



?Stictocephala subulata Say. 



Generally lifted as a Stictocephala but Dr. Goding states 

 on the authority of Dr. Uhler that Say's species is but a variety 

 of Atymna inornata. It certainly fits better in Cyrtolobus or 

 Atymna than in Stictocephala. 



Genus Acutalis Fairmaire. 



In this genus are now placed only the larger species for- 

 merly included in it. In these the elytral nervures are distinct 

 and there are five apical and no discoidal areoles. Our three 

 species may be distinguished as follows: 



Elytra black and opaque, the apical areoles only hyaline, the 

 dividing nervures heavy and black ; head and pronotum 

 mostly deep black, i, tartar ea Say. 



